I'm sorry, I don't understand your response. What do you mean by "just copy the files on your ps3". Do you mean copy the physical files to the internal storage of the PS3? That defeats the whole purpose of streaming the video. If that's not what you mean, please elaborate.

The media files are visible through both TVersity and PS3MS, but when playback is attempted is when the data format error message appears.

I have all the codecs installed. See trace above, and as I said all of the files play in WMP11 on the host computer.

heavyharmonies wrote:I'm sorry, I don't understand your response. What do you mean by "just copy the files on your ps3". Do you mean copy the physical files to the internal storage of the PS3? That defeats the whole purpose of streaming the video. If that's not what you mean, please elaborate.

The media files are visible through both TVersity and PS3MS, but when playback is attempted is when the data format error message appears.

I have all the codecs installed. See trace above, and as I said all of the files play in WMP11 on the host computer.

I'm interested in that WMV failure... do you have any samples available so I can try as well ? (the ones I got works fine here)

Do you realise you need to browse to the ##TRANSCODED## folder and play the files from in there? Otherwise it just tries to stream the original unsupported format. Sorry if you're already doing that, but it wasn't obvious for me at first.

Do you realise you need to browse to the ##TRANSCODED## folder and play the files from in there? Otherwise it just tries to stream the original unsupported format. Sorry if you're already doing that, but it wasn't obvious for me at first.

That was the problem, thanks. Wasn't intuitively obvious to me.

Next question: How do you make the browsing better? The folder with the original files (that don't play) all have nice thumbnails in the listing. In my case, that folder is completely useless and serves no purpose. Going to the ##TRANSCODED## folder, I get no thumbnails since there's nothing but more subfolders (one per transcoder type).

It would be great if you could just set an option to never show the original files and just show {INSERT TRANSCODED FLAVOR HERE} by default. Right now it's very klunky to navigate and you have to go by file name since you get no thumbnails for any videos.

sonic_screw wrote:It would be great if you could just set an option to never show the original files and just show {INSERT TRANSCODED FLAVOR HERE} by default. Right now it's very klunky to navigate and you have to go by file name since you get no thumbnails for any videos.

I agree things could be made easier. Takes a fair bit of explaining any time I show one of my friends or housemates how to use it!

Whilst the option is there to force transcoding for certain extensions, that doesn't seem a great idea to me. Instead, can't the software simply detect which codecs are compatible, and just automatically transcode only when it needs to? Obviously certain file extensions will ALWAYS need transcoding, but others may or may not, depending on which codecs have been used in the container. And what about remuxing when the codecs are right but the container isn't? Since this is a ps3mediaserver, it'd be nice to make the whole transcoding process optimised and automated for that application. I know it's not easy, but something nice to work towards.

In that situation, maybe you could have a ##ORIGINAL## folder where all the untranscoded files can be accessed, in case there's a problem with any particular file.

But, I think at least displaying the thumbnails in the transcode folder might not be too difficult, I might have a little look at some of the virtual folder code later on.

Do you realise you need to browse to the ##TRANSCODED## folder and play the files from in there? Otherwise it just tries to stream the original unsupported format. Sorry if you're already doing that, but it wasn't obvious for me at first.

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I found the WMV problem, I was sending the wrong mime type in some cases

Do you realise you need to browse to the ##TRANSCODED## folder and play the files from in there? Otherwise it just tries to stream the original unsupported format. Sorry if you're already doing that, but it wasn't obvious for me at first.

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I found the WMV problem, I was sending the wrong mime type in some cases

Shagrath, I compiled your latest SVN (R264) at the moment in the hope of fixing the WMV problem. But the problem still persists . Do you have any idea what might be the cause? I assume the compiled R264 build would have fixed this. Oh and a WMV-HD demo from microsoft (Coral Reef) works. But my other WMV files do not, while it used to work with 1.02.1. I used Sliksvn to compile the build and I deleted the original Win32 folder of 1.03 and just copied the outcome of the checkout to the original 1.03 folder. This should be the correct method right?

BTW: I am on Vista Ultimate 32bit and i haven't used "ant" which i have read, wouldn't be needed for Windows

Still: I am a big fan of your software, so thanks a lot for your effort.